linux-kernel - [PATCH] mm: vmscan: support complete shrinker reclaim

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Date:   Tue,  5 Jan 2021 16:43:38 -0800
From:   Sudarshan Rajagopalan <sudaraja@...eaurora.org>
To:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Sudarshan Rajagopalan <sudaraja@...eaurora.org>
Subject: [PATCH] mm: vmscan: support complete shrinker reclaim

Ensure that shrinkers are given the option to completely drop
their caches even when their caches are smaller than the batch size.
This change helps improve memory headroom by ensuring that under
significant memory pressure shrinkers can drop all of their caches.
This change only attempts to more aggressively call the shrinkers
during background memory reclaim, inorder to avoid hurting the
performance of direct memory reclaim.

Signed-off-by: Sudarshan Rajagopalan <sudaraja@...eaurora.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
---
 mm/vmscan.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 9727dd8e2581..35973665ae64 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -424,6 +424,10 @@ static unsigned long do_shrink_slab(struct shrink_control *shrinkctl,
 	long batch_size = shrinker->batch ? shrinker->batch
 					  : SHRINK_BATCH;
 	long scanned = 0, next_deferred;
+	long min_cache_size = batch_size;
+
+	if (current_is_kswapd())
+		min_cache_size = 0;
 
 	if (!(shrinker->flags & SHRINKER_NUMA_AWARE))
 		nid = 0;
@@ -503,7 +507,7 @@ static unsigned long do_shrink_slab(struct shrink_control *shrinkctl,
 	 * scanning at high prio and therefore should try to reclaim as much as
 	 * possible.
 	 */
-	while (total_scan >= batch_size ||
+	while (total_scan > min_cache_size ||
 	       total_scan >= freeable) {
 		unsigned long ret;
 		unsigned long nr_to_scan = min(batch_size, total_scan);
-- 
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